Enjoy Spurs maestro before he bails out

With Spurs' Gareth Bale reportedly being offered a fifty-million fee by the likes of Real Madrid, a transfer cannot be far away

IS GARETH BALE worth fifty-million quid, do you suppose? This is the amount it
is reported Real Madrid would be willing to pay for him this summer. It may
end up being rather more than that because the next team to dominate
European club football, Bayern Munich, are also interested in the
lantern-jawed Welshman who puts his tongue out when he scores a goal.

God knows what the fee will end up being; at 23 Bale is probably as valuable
(in financial terms) as he is ever going to be, even if we might agree that
he is likely to get better as a player over the next two or three years.
Well, if people are prepared to pay £35m for poor old Andy Carroll, there
really is no limit to the amount one might pay for Bale.